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TIL that in 1961 the U.S. Military accidentally dropped two live nuclear bombs on North Carolina.

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R7ea TIL of Jambo, a silverback gorilla that, in 1986, protected an unconscious young boy who fell into the enclosure at Jersey zoo from the other, hostile gorillas
awpZN Today I learned that a certain portion of the population will consistently feel the urge to defecate shortly after walking into bookstores or libraries. Named after the otherwise-unheard-of woman whose confession to a Japanese book magazine made it famous, it's known as the Mariko Aoki phenomenon.
ANMbw TIL Spontaneous Human Combustion Is (Almost Definitely) a Myth
obZr TIL Georg Von Trapp Killed 684 French Sailors during WWI. His family would be later be the basis for “The Sound of Music”.
XEjBD TIL: When Andrew Jackson became president of the USA, he was given a two-ton wheel of cheese as a gift from a farmer in New York. He left it in the White House foyer for a year and at his farewell party, he let everyone take as much as they wanted of it, leaving Jackson with barely any leftover.